Anessa Rodriguez
Amy Sydoruk
Economics
February 3, 2017
explains the costly consequences and ultimate solution to current US President, Donald
Trumps bar on immigration. Porters article focuses predominantly on how the ban will
affect the economic market (a topic touched upon during assignment two). Porter
argues that barring immigrants access to the US, revoking visas, and expelling millions
will not make America great again, but will only serve to cripple the economy and
potentially impoverish other nations on a global scale (Porter). This is due to the fact
that immigration, both legal and illegal, produces massive benefits for the US economy.
and Medicine, net benefits of $50 million dollars a year were produced via immigration
to the United States between 1990 and 2010 (National Academies). Moreover, the
foregoing text additionally reports that in just the last year, foreign workers added $2
data that Porter suggests that if Mr. Trump wants to make america great again that he
should not ban immigrants, but allow more of them to enter the country. Doing so, he
argues, would boost the global economic market and raise the incomes of the poor.
This article is extremely important due to the current political climate. Our country
Articles such as the one that Mr. Porter wrote show that President Trumps ban is not
only constitutionally wrong, but is also illogical. As Porter repeatedly points out,
employing foreign workers only benefits the economy and adds trillions of dollars to the
global market. Expelling immigrants will not make America great again, but instead will
Works Cited
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016. The Economic and
Porter, Eduardo. "How To Make America Greater: More Immigration." The New York